Overview

• Authorities say security around the U.S. mission in Caracas was tightened after officials reported a plan to place explosives at the compound.
• Jorge Rodríguez asserted he alerted the U.S. government through three channels and also informed an unspecified European embassy to relay the warning.
• Recent U.S. maritime strikes on suspected drug boats in the southern Caribbean have killed at least 21 people, including four in a fifth strike announced Friday.
• President Nicolás Maduro’s government has ordered troop mobilizations, militia enlistment and coastal exercises, and called a march opposing perceived U.S. threats.
• The U.S. relocated most diplomatic personnel to Bogotá in 2019, and social‑media claims that opposition leader María Corina Machado is at the Caracas embassy remain unverified.